
When Eritrea silenced its critics
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A Brief History of the Hungarian Revolution
When it became clear the revolution was over, the prime minister and most of his circle accepted an offer of refuge in the yuguslav embassy. Sensing that this was a trap, mikhloch gimech senior went underground and tried to continue the resistance. As the soviet troops swept into hungary from the east, a quarter of a million people fled westwards, towards the border with austria. And the fugitive journalist had one last meeting with his wife. My mother met my father in the centre of bulapest,. where there was a lot of people walking around. So they met some corner for half an hour or so and discussed the whole thing. And there
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